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Topic: Misc Feature Adding Mods (Read 297505 times)

This thread contains the following mods that add new features to the game but don't fit any of the other categories:

Adult/Teen - Teen/Adult Attraction

Age Duration Hack

Age Transition - Teens Keep Loves

Always Flush Toilet/Wash Hands

Find-a-Mate Crystal Ball

Increased Abduction and/or Die by Satellite

Ghost Hack

Keep Paintings Viewable with Walls Down

No Friends for Careers

Plastic Surgery for Teens - No Failure

School Bus & Homework Hacks

Smart Beds

Static Energy Sculpture

Welcome Wagon Hacks

Adult/Teen - Teen/Adult Attraction - Recommended additional mod for ACRAllows teens to be attracted to adults and adults to teens. Also fixes a very strange issue where the game would not generate an attraction score if the simís Ďtargetí was sitting or laying down. Sims will still not get the bolts in the UI, but they will have the benefits of the attraction. Note: This is included as part of Inteen and should not be used with it. Also fixes a Maxis bug that causes errors due to the game attempting to calculate attraction between a sim and a skunk. The skunk fix is also available separately here.

Age Duration HackThis hack is an adjustment of the adult and elder lifespans. There was apparently supposed to be some randomness built into the base elder lifespan, it should be a random 10-20 days + the aspiration bonus of -2 to +10 days for a range of 8-30 days. But it's not random as all and is always 20 days and then the asp bonus/penalty is applied for a 18-30 day range.

This changes the age ranges to:

The elder life stage is now from 10-15 days (totally random, not dependent on aspiration level).

The adult life stage is now from 28-33 days (totally random) +/- the aspiration bonus/penalty that used to be applied when becoming an elder. This can be from -2 days to +10 days depending on asp level making the final range from 26 to 43 days.

Always Flush Toilet/Wash HandsSims will always flush the toilet when finished using it. Sims with 3 points or more in neat will wash their hands autonomously after using the toilet ONLY if their next queued interaction is NOT a sink, bathtub, or shower. The NP Versions of the mod also include no privacy for toilet use only. Always Flush verison does not include the handwashing (duh). All four are included in the same archive. Only install one.

Find-a-Mate Crystal BallSummon the power of the Gypsy's crystal ball, without having to deal with the old bat. Tell the ball what type of sim you are looking for and get a choice of the 5 matching sims in the hood that have the highest chemistry. Make your selection and the sim will be summoned ot the lot. The rest is up to you. Full details are in the readme.

Increased Abduction and/or Die by SatelliteUpped the overall odds of being abducted. Odds start at nearly zero, but increase continuously the longer the sim stargazes. The Satellite mod ups the odds of death by satellite from 1% to 3%.

Keep Paintings Viewable with Walls DownAdds new pie menu options to paintings allowing you to set them to stay viewable when the wall they are attached to drops. Includes options to change the setting for just the individual painting clicked on, or all paintings on the lot at once.

No Friends Needed For CareersThis hack removes the friends requirement from all careers. This does not alter the actual career files, it is a global hack that will work with all careers, including custom careers. The control panel will still show that friends are needed to advance, BUT the promotion will still occur as long as all other requirements such as skills and job performace are met. This hack will conflict with JM Pescado's Harder Jobs but if you want this, I'm guessing you don't want that.

School Bus/Bring Friend & Homework HacksStops 'school bus will be here in an hour' spam. You'll only get one instead of one per kid. You'll also receive a dialog when kids/teens want to bring someone home from school asking you if this is okay. If you say no, the sims will still get the 20/20 relationship boost but the sim won't come over. Choose cancel and the sim won't come over and you won't get the automatic relationship boost either. I also completely rewrote the code for choosing the sim to bring home. You should notice much less lag while the game picks, as well as much smarter, more random choosing. See the readme for more details. The homework hack makes homework random once a kid learns to study and make it slightly more fun for serious sims. See readme for other features.

Compatiblity Note: The school bus/bring friend mod is compatible with the Inteenimator, but is not compatible with the 'back to school' flavor pack add-on.AL Version Only Compatibility Note: Pescado's alfixes conflicts with school bus/bring friend and my mod must load after alfixes to work.

Smart BedsIf you've used ACR you'll be familiar with how this works, although this is a separate mod from ACR (and compatible with it). Forces the bed ownership system already in the game to actually work. Sims will autonomously only use the bed they have the most ownership of. Also includes a couple new pie menu options on the sim menu to set/clear bed ownership. In Hotels in Bon Voyage, bed ownership is currently not used. Sims can sleep in any bed as long as they are checked in. See the RTFM for the gory details. It may or may not conflict with another mod that affects sleep/relaxing.Compatibility Notes: Pescado's bedsidefix from MATY conflicts with Smart Beds and is not necessary, that fix is included.

Static Energy SculpturePlace this sculpture on any lot and all selectable sims (plus babies) will have their energy motive frozen at its current value. Does not affect NPC's or visitors. Very helpful for those shopping trips downtown after work or before class.